Starship Krupa

Generally, those of us who try to help out here read the topic titles and if we think we can contribute, we try. As for why we participate, speaking for myself, I just like to help people. And I'm really good at searching and reading documentation, so even if I don't know the answer, I'll look it up, and in that way, I learn the software better. The best way to show appreciation is to post a follow-up in the same topic where you asked the question, letting people know that their advice helped. That also helps the people who just read the forum but never post know that the suggestions worked.

Whatever DAW you go with, if plug-ins are what you seek, Kilohearts' Essentials, MeldaProduction's FreeFX Bundle, Native Instruments' Komplete Start, IK Multimedia's Sampletank CS (and other CS instruments and FX), Soundpaint, and the free Vital synth will give you a pretty deep collection of stuff for absolutely free. No DAW user at any level should pass those up. The abundance of great free loss-leader software is the reason that I've never felt restricted by the relatively small array of plug-ins that Cakewalk ships with (although don't neglect the Pro Channel FX, which are pretty excellent). Given the choice, I'd much rather pay as little as possible for the DAW itself and pick my own plug-ins.

If I ever decide I want to jump into the thriving job market for commercial studio employment, I'll be all over Pro Tools. You seem to have mistaken me for someone who disagrees with you/him. He summed up my experiences and opinions pretty much perfectly. I'm merely following it up with saying that even Studio One for Linux is unlikely to turn the tide, and when it doesn't, the Linuxoids will have even fewer excuses for Linux failing to penetrate the DAW market.

I do have a license for it on my personal account. That's how I know it's a "must have." This is from an account I also have access to, a friend's who isn't as on top of these things as I am. I guess I should check their list of products and make sure they didn't snag it at some point, although I thought that they hadn't. It ain't the end of the world if I can't figure it out.

So Behringer's first synth turns out to have "borrowed" the look of an existing product. How very Behringer of them. I dunno, though, two wheels on the left, woodgrain frame, and bunch of knobs on the face isn't exactly unique. Cherry Audio and IK Multimedia have made closer clones of hardware synths. I wonder if people were looking harder for it to be a copy of an existing product, given Behringer's past behavior.

This is what I see: No place to click on "get coupon."

Pro Tools, the Word Perfect of DAW's. I don't consider them an industry leader these days. I know the issue is hardware support, and the Linux rah-rahs' lament/excuse has been that since the big guys don't ship DAW's for Linux, there's no incentive for interface makers to provide drivers, blah blah blah. My theory is that PreSonus just got tired of the whining and slapped it together to shut them up. The DAW that Linux users should adopt and be happy with is REAPER, which has similar appeal and even UX. Then they can join the REAPER hordes and clutter up discussions of other products with their preaching.

TBF, PreSonus is a larger DAW developer and have tossed their hat into the Linux ring. At this point, I'd say to the Linux advocates "you got your top tier DAW, so you can't use the excuse that big developers are 'cowardly.'" If they're right, then Studio One on Linux would be the tipping point, but it ain't gonna do it. At least when one drops into this forum and starts begging for CS to go Linux, we have somewhere to point them. Studio One is at least every bit as capable as CS, and they've jumped into Linux, so reward them for their bravery.

Perhaps. As early as 1988 or so, when online forums meant dial-up BBSes, there have always been users of some platform or other who believe that if they just advocate hard enough for their platform, it will step into big time popularity. In those days it was the Amiga. Amiga users would not STFU about how great they were, how they represented the future of computing with all their multimedia features. Trouble was, they represented the future. What was happening in the present was that people wanted office apps like word processing, databases, groupware, spreadsheets, desktop publishing, etc. That was what was driving adoption and growth. Microsoft saw this and stepped up, and took over the world. Employees could learn Word, Excel, etc., and drop into any company. The multimedia stuff, while fun, was a niche market by comparison. The Amiga had office apps, but they were from tiny vendors. Not incidentally, on the hardware side, businesses are wary of single-source vendors. Apple and Commodore, with their locked down hardware platforms, were less desirable. Buy or lease a pile of Dells, Gateways, Compaqs, HP's. Otherwise you're at the whim of one manufacturer, who could change the game on you with impunity. Witness the recent developments with Apple Silicon. Not saying that there's anything wrong with Apple Silicon, quite the contrary, but it's caused everyone who develops for MacOS to have to re-do their software to be able to run on it. Anyway, when Linux came along, it became the next one in this role. It got so bad in the 90's that I swore to all of my computing friends that I'd never touch Linux with a 10' pole because of the endless blah blah. Instead, I tried working with FreeBSD. What finally got me to break my promise was Ubuntu, which finally delivered on the promise of being able to rival Windows for desktop use. OpenOffice was great, all the browsers worked, and even some plug-and play stuff. But by that time, Windows and MacOS were already at a higher level. Now we had high res gaming, video editing, DAW's, etc. all of which by their nature have to cozy up to the OS to squeeze every bit of performance and compatibility. Someday, Linux will be able to be a decent platform for gaming and multimedia creation, but it ain't someday, it's now, and there's no sense in adopting a platform where you'll be struggling.

You were curious and you gave it a shot, and I thank you for doing it so that I don't have to. The Linux rah-rahs have been overselling its capabilities for 25 years. It's still great for keeping old low-end hardware useful for things like web browsing and office apps. I have an old iMac that was hopelessly slow, wiped it and put on some light Linux build or other and it works great. Pretty much useless, as I have other computers to do those mundane tasks, and nobody else I know is in need of a computer that can only do those tasks. But it was a fun exercise.

Yes, submit support tickets with both Kazrog and BandLab. While you're waiting to hear back, try using the VST2 version of the plug-in if there is one (assuming you're now using the VST3 version). Sometimes when plug-ins and Cakewalk aren't playing well together switching between VST3 and VST2 builds will allow it to work.

That would be great for this use. I hope it works.

Interesting video. She has some hip artifacts in her pad. Framed Laura Palmer photo, check. Reissue Oblique Strategies card set, check. She mentions playing in one of Rhys Chatham's performances, which is something I did about 10 years ago, here in the SF Bay Area. 100 electric guitars all playing at once. We players were assigned to 4 sections, A-D, with each section made up of 25 players. Somehow I drew A-1, so I was up in front right next to Rhys himself. Such a great group of people, one of the peak moments in my life. I'm pleased to see that Future Music is still around; they carried my pedals for a while just before I imploded. If I were still in the game, she'd probably be waving around a Crucible Fuzz or ICBM Fuzz. Sigh.

If you had to check out of mainstream pop culture for a decade, the 80's were a splendid decade to check out of. I went underground. College radio only, club shows only, no TV, no Hollywood movies. Drank a lot of booze, did a fair amount of drugs. My mother bought me a color TV for Christmas 1989, and I discovered Star Trek: The Next Generation and then Twin Peaks. That helped me transition back into the mainstream somewhat just in time for the 90's, which were much, much better.

I don't have enough reward tokens.

Dennis Dias' solo on Steely Dan's "Your Gold Teeth II." Guitarists (musicians in general I guess) have these moments while soloing where you no longer think about the next note you're going to play, it feels like the instrument is as much a part of you as your voice, you are perfectly in the moment, it feels like you're channeling some other higher intelligence. It is rare. You can hear him ease into that mode about halfway through the solo. Of course, it helped to have Jeff Porcaro in his prime laying down the rhythm: Peter Visser of Bettie Serveert laid down a face-melter on their song "Brain Tag." I was in a record store when I heard it for the first time and demanded that the clerk sell me whatever CD was currently playing. There's some slide, some whammy, some double stops, all in service of the melody. If you like Neil Young's playing, you'll probably dig this. The song actually has two guitar solos. There's one about where you'd think there should be, and it's pretty good, but then at about the song's 5-minute mark it has a false ending, after which Peter drops the napalm:

Nice sounding mix and I like the arrangement. I agree with the others on the trumpet reverb. Glad you found a better solution to making it sound farther away. One thing that I found jarring is that the piano notes sustain for a while and then cut off abruptly before being allowed to decay naturally. A pianist would likely hold the notes rather than lifting, to bring the listener to the next section. If you let them decay, it gives the ear something to hold on to before the next section comes in.

It would be easier to give advice if we could hear one of the current mixes that you would like to improve. Oz-Soft Xpander and Polyverse Wider are two of my favorite freeware widening plug-ins. It might also do to get familiar with Mid-Side processing, where you apply different processing to the mid and side parts of a stereo source. When done with compression, especially, it can make for interesting spatial results.

Your motherboard doesn't have an M2 slot, but it might be able to accept a PCIe M2 adapter. You wouldn't be able to boot from the drive, but if what you want to do is only invest in technology you can make good use of in a future build, it's worth investigating. I used this method to install an M2 drive in my i7 3770 Dell, and even did eventually hack the firmware to allow the system to recognize it as a bootable drive. If all you want to do is back your system up, the big spinner is the way to go.

Whether we think it's viable or not, some people want to try it for themselves. Linux is fine for many things (server, office apps), but I don't think it's there yet for audio and video production work. If someone can get it to work for them for those tasks, more power to them. They'll find out what they'll find out, why wee-wee on their parade? The way I see it, @53mph is trying it so that I don't have to. I hope he reports back and lets us know how it went. If he says it wasn't that bad, then I'll know that Linux has changed in the many years since I tried to do anything with it beyond office apps and listening to music and watching videos. If he says that he tried it and it frustrated him, then I'll know that not enough has changed. With the presence of REAPER, Studio One, and Waveform on the platform, the Linux mob can't claim that the reason Linux is such a PITA is because boo-hoo, the big developers aren't brave enough to support it. REAPER is the tinkerer's DAW of choice on any platform, Studio One is an industry leader, and Waveform is yet another nice alternative, with a completely free to use version. The apps have arrived, now it's up to the Linux developers to come up with the equivalent to WASAPI and Core Audio.

Oh man. Despite, or perhaps because of, what else was going on in the world and music industry at the time, a very strong underground arose and flourished during the 80's. Since you like Oingo Boingo, I recommend you watch Urgh! A Music War, which is now available for free viewing on Kanopy. All you should need to access Kanopy is a library card. Great set from Boingo, as well as a TON of other US and UK acts along those lines. What was referred to as "new wave" at the time, but most of the bands are what would now be called "post punk." You'll likely come away from the film with a list of early 80's bands you want to investigate further. My favorite performances from the movie are The Au Pairs, Gang of Four, Gary Numan, and The Police. Boingo are in it too, so you can check out what they looked like as babies!

I forgot, Waveform is another DAW that has a Linux version. Also a free version. As a strategy, I would first try one of the DAW's that also has Windows and Mac versions, because then if the Linux thing doesn't pan out, I wouldn't have sunk anything (money, time) into a DAW that I wouldn't be able to continue with on a commercial platform. Not to be defeatist, but it is likely that REAPER, Studio One, Waveform and Mixbus are more likely to have features that the industry has accepted as standard.

Agreed. There used to be an HTML code you could add to web pages to tell the various search engines not to spider them. I wonder if this is still true.

That sure changed in a hurry. You can now get a perpetual license for Studio One Pro along with a year's subscription to Studio One+ for $179. That puts it even lower than Logic Pro.

No.